Blood Bowl

The Brets are done.

TBH I am not altogether impressed with the teams in the new box.  The teams seem just a bit uninspiring.  But in the plus side they are now completed and ai can move on to something else.

Now only the High Elves and then official GW bloodbowl is complete

A few weeks ago I completed the new(ish) Tomb Kings team that was in the recent third edition boxset.

See below some of thr WIP images.

And the completed team

So for Christmas one of my gifts with season 3, so 2 more teams.  And they just released the High Elves, so I now have 3 new teams that need painting.

currently I have all three built but only the Tomb Kings and Bretonians primed.

before starting with the teams I also at the end of last year picked up the official vargheist for the vampires, so decided to crack on with it first.

I then decided to start on the Tomb Kings as despite being the driest of the undead, the team design appeals to me more than the bretonians.

Starting with the Tomb Guardians, I have the following WIP

It obviously needs a lot more work but is turning out alright.

So far the the paints used are:

Gold : Retributor Armour, shade Reikland Fleshshade, go over with Retributor Armour

Blue : Ammo Atom Blue, shade Tyran Blue, go over Atom Blue

’White’ : Celestra Grey

Bandages : steel legion drab

The troll has now been completed and so therefore has the team.  I am not bothering with the tokens and marked but I think a free fully painted team is more than enough.

I do need to put a few coats of varnish on the models but I am still calling them complete.

The troll

I think the painting is a good C+ but the question is why did I prime them blank and then paint them white?  I am putting it down to sleep deprivation and/or stupidity.

So the full team together.

So the goblins have all been complete, so just the troll to go.

Goblins 7, 8, & 9

Goblins 10, 11, & 12

A group who of the goblins

And the team sans troll

From my test models I did change the shade on the material to Agrax rather than seraphim sepia but think that they turned out alright.

I do need to a few layers of varnish so they will be alright at the store but I think it is a good job for a team I am giving away for free.

The black orcs themselves are finished mostly using the recipe from the test piece.  If I was keeping the models, I think I would redo the skin but I have already spent more time on them than wanted to.

Orcs 1 & 2, This was the test piece and it’s duplicate body sculpt

Orcs 3 & 4

Orcs 5 & 6

The team so far

The remaining goblins which I hope to complete in the next day or so

After that I still have the troll to complete and to add a few layers of varnish.

I also need to add some numbers to the bases and this project will be complete.  How long can all that take?

I have finished off the Black Orc and Goblin test minis.

For the teeth, bones, and tusks I base painted Dryad Bark and then highlighted with Zandri dust.

For the metal I used Two thin coats Plate armour for the base coat and washed with ahead and then highlighted with Zandri dusk.

The leather work was Mournfang brown washed with Agrax, highlighted with mournfang again and then Skrag brown.

All of these could do with another highlight but the results are good enough for what I need.

The next step is to paint all of these remaining Black orcs first, then the Goblins, and finally the troll.

After I took this picture I then painted the iconography a thinned down Kantor Blue

First the test for the black orc skin.  Again I don’t want anything too complex, so decided on just two colours, Incubi darkness and skarsnik green.

i layered a couple layers of incubi darkness, then mixed about 60% incubi with the skarsnik, and then painted it over leaving the darker tone in the recesses.  Normally I would have done this a few more times with more skarsnik added to the mix but decided for brevity to just do a highlight of pure skarsnik.

Which turned out good enough but was more starker than intended so I added a very thinned down wash of skarsnik to make it blend more.

My photos are not getting any better but I am happy with the result of the paint job.

I will, when painting the other orcs, make sure the flesh is painted first.